Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-06-30
MINNESOTA.

Tho postofice at Wexford, Kandiyohi
county, is discontinued.
Tho Braincrd and Northwestern has
been surveyed to Milaca.
1t is estimated that $4,000 people will
settle in the Vermirion range this season.
The Minnesota Methodist camp meet
ing was in progress at Red Rock recently.
William Abel, the Heron Lake rapist,
was sentenced to three years nt Saltwater.
"A man named Hans Nelson was
crushed to death by falling building at
st. Paul.
The carpenters of St. Paul have
struck for nine hours work. Other trades
are joining them.
Lake City is making great effort to
secure the location Of the State soldiers
home at that town.
Joseph Daily, who lived about siz
miles from Hector, was instantly killed by
lightning recently.
One man carved another with razor
at Minneapolis, and the victim will die. II
was woman scrape.
%. E. Collins, an agent of the Mutual
Protective Association, was arrested at st.
Cloud on charge of forgery.
The Omaha and the Chicago and
Northwestern have jointly issued neat
pamphlet called "Midst the Pines"
The Minnesota Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows held its annual session at waba-
sha recently. Attendance very large.
Cannon Falls voted on the goth inst.
on the question of raising $1,000 in bonds
to furnish tho village with water. r.works.
Tho Crookston roller mills burned
lately. Loss, $4,000: Insurance, 500, 1000.
Wilkin & Bjornstadt, of st. Paul, owners.
Bids for the construction of the Red
River Valley road from Winnipeg to West
Lynn, opposite Pembina, are advertised
for.
"A deaf and dumb girl who was walking
on the railroad track near Wabasha was
struck by a locomotive and instantly
killed.
"A $4,000 mill, three churches, q.
$4,500 school house, four business houses
and number of residences are now in
course of erection at Heron Lake.
-Sauk Center entertained the Mime
sofa G. A. R. recently, the city being gaily
decorated. Governor .McGill and Ignatius
Donnelly were among the speakers. Miss
Fulmer, of Winona, sang.
An election was held at Waseca lately
on proposition TO issue bonds for the
construction of water-works and other i'm.
proyements, and the proposition was de-
defeated by vote of 191 to los.
Interior millers complain that G. c.
Wolcott, of Minneapolis, is paying more
for wheat than he can afford unless the
railroads give him some advantages not af-
forded them. Wolcott and the railroads
deny the charge.
Ole Oleson was drowned in the Cedar
river, near Austin, the other day. He rode
into the water on horseback and unknow-
ingly got into deep water when the horse
commenced to founder, throwing him of,
and as he was unable to swim he soon
drowned.
Prof. W. A. Hoag, of the state uni.
versity, has been appointed to assist
United States Engineer Bauttle in n geodic
survey of Minnesota. The survey is pro-
vided for by congress and is system of
triangulation which will give correct map
of the state.
Here is the way the Duluth Para
0rapher man speaks of his locality: In
this northern latitude where the summer
sun gets up to disperse the fog md bedeck
the world with natures glistening Jewels
long before the early bird has made his
morning beat along the trail of the pil.
grim worm, and where tile lodestar of the
twinkies at us with constant and
untiring twink from the zenith above, there
are many things of wonder to him who in
the love of nature holds communion with
her invisible forms. The soil, which in
some places is concealed by three -ply
tapestry of green and in others by q plaid
suit of corrugated rock, is Of rich bru.
nette complexion in the bottoms and in the
uplands is red and frecklei clay which
to him who understands speaks varied
and verbose language. 1t tells of the
choicest crops that ever drank the dow
which without encouragement have nn-
'ured and yielded their fruits into tie lap
pf tbs sous Of men.